Surely what recovery groups should be doing is appealing to what's left of one's logic and mind? The repetitive, habitual part of us is what got us here to start with, non?
If anything saves me it's going to be my brain and will, not my proclivity for repetition...
I use AA as my program of recovery and
neither my will or brain got
me sober. I recovered from the disease of alcoholism as a result of a spiritual experience after working the 12 steps.
These questions will get us into another drawn out AA vs other methods debate....there are more than enough of those threads already.